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The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 01, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:18
- Purchases: 2
First, pollution and over-harvesting caused the population of Puget Sound oysters to plummet. And then, a new sea creature came to town! The "arche...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Car sharing is catching on in cities across the country. Today, about 92,000 people belong to car-sharing services like Zipcar and Flexcar.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Small but mighty is one way to describe the organism called "salp." A report in the journal Deep Sea Research suggests that salp, along with the ti...
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
"Green" buildings incorporate the latest technology to squeeze the most out of the energy that's used for heating, cooling, and lighting. They're a...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
The endangered American Crocodile may owe its future to conservation measures taken near a nuclear power plant. The Turkey Point plant in south Flo...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
We've all marveled at the shifting patterns that clouds form in the sky. Beyond capturing our imagination, though, clouds play a vital role in Eart...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
Gunter Pauli is the director of "ZERI," which is short for Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives. He started out making biodegradable detergents...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
